No more "if I get 2400 will I get in college with scholarship?"

Student Lounge International Students
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<p>Please stop asking this kind of question....
Score doesn't determine anything, and it's even more pointless if you don't have actual score.
Please do some basic research before posting. </p>

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<p>It’s not a stupid question at all. High SAT scores will help <em>tremendously</em> in getting a scholarship or financial aid. Some universities even award significant scholarships based on SAT scores alone!!!</p>

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<p>but are there good schools that give money to INTERNATIONAL kids solely based on sat or act scores in the usa?</p>

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<p>Yes, there’s plenty of scholarships for international applicants that are solely or mainly based on SAT scores, in the United States.</p>

<p>At good universities? That depends on what you mean by good. Competitive with Ivies or UCLA? No, not really. Offering more opportunities than universities in the third world? Probably! Making it easier for someone to emigrate to the US than a degree from a foreign university? For sure!!!</p>

<p>Automatic scholarships aside, SAT scores also play a crucial role in the admission process of more selective universities with a holistic admission process. It’s super difficult to interpret a foreign high school transcript from a distance; so in the absence of international achievements (e.g. an IMO medal), the next best proxy for an applicant’s academic preperation are their SAT scores.</p>

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<p>@ b@r!um thank you for the reply</p>

<p>when I said admission with scholarship, I was more emphasizing the admission rather than scholarship(for those who need a lot of money); I know there are many schools that gives automatic merit scholarships, but I was saying this on the assumption that the international students are asking regarding top50, or even 100… </p>

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<p>If your advice was only directed at students applying to top universities, you need to make that explicit!</p>

<p>As it stands, all you say is “score doesn’t determine anything.” Which is plainly false. Money aside, it may be the single most important element of your application. Screw up your SATs and you’re screwed, especially as an international financial aid applicant.</p>

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<p>*score doens’t determine everything was what I originally meant but obviously I didn’t check what I wrote. :-S </p>